05/26/2017
Stop by this Pop-up Exhibition, curated in conjunction with tomorrow's screening, featuring selections from the Johnson Publishing Company Library and the Edward J. Williams Collection at the Stony Island Arts Bank, that pull focus on the art of an old hustle, shoe-shining. Within these articles and objects lay potent contrasts (and thus, examinations) of race, class, agency and representation.
Ebony, August 1974, p. 116 – “The Working Child”
Ebony, February 1976, p. 144 – Advertisement for The United Negro College Fund
Ebony, August 1957, p. 60 – “Shoeshine Boys”
Muhammad Ali’s Champion Brand Neutral shoe polish
Mason’s Original Challenge Blacking
Dremel Dual Buffer Shoe Polisher, personally owned by John Johnson of Johnson Publishing